What about Progress Texas?

[OnePercenter]

Seems that the extra IRS scrutiny has hit leftwing groups too.

A liberal group on Wednesday said it had faced the same level of scrutiny from the IRS that was applied to tea party groups.

“Progress Texas and the Tea Party strongly disagree on the role of government,” the group’s executive director, Ed Espinoza, said in a statement. “Yet, when we applied for tax-exempt status, Progress Texas received the same type of additional scrutiny that Tea Party groups are complaining about. The similar treatment indicates the IRS was likely addressing a flood of 501c4 applications after Citizens United, and undermines the paranoid notion that Tea Party groups were singled out.”

Liberal group Progress Texas also received extra IRS scrutiny | The Raw Story

 

[OnePercenter]

.....and more

IRS Sent Same Letter to Democrats That Fed Tea Party Row - Bloomberg

 

[OnePercenter]

Still nothing on Fox News about the IRS plight of Progress Texas. I thought they were 'fair and balanced', I guess NOT.

 

[depotoo]

yeah, they got a letter in Feb. 2013, after the IRS knew an audit was going on.

 

[blackhawk]

Seems that the extra IRS scrutiny has hit leftwing groups too.

A liberal group on Wednesday said it had faced the same level of scrutiny from the IRS that was applied to tea party groups.

“Progress Texas and the Tea Party strongly disagree on the role of government,” the group’s executive director, Ed Espinoza, said in a statement. “Yet, when we applied for tax-exempt status, Progress Texas received the same type of additional scrutiny that Tea Party groups are complaining about. The similar treatment indicates the IRS was likely addressing a flood of 501c4 applications after Citizens United, and undermines the paranoid notion that Tea Party groups were singled out.”

Liberal group Progress Texas also received extra IRS scrutiny | The Raw Story

Did you actually read the entire article you linked? It seems like you skipped over some pretty relevant stuff from it.
Though the line of questioning was generally the same, there were some key differences between the lists of questions.

The Liberty Township Tea Party was asked to provide copies of all its activity on Facebook and Twitter, while the Progress Texas was not. The Liberty Township Tea Party was asked for more specific information about the employment background of its officials, including copies of resumes, while Progress Texas was asked for more general information. The tea party group was also asked whether any of its officials had served on the board of another organization or planned to run for office.

An inspector general report released Tuesday found the IRS had inappropriately targeted tea party groups for additional review based solely on their name.

Of the nearly 300 groups that received extra scrutiny, about one-third were selected because of their conservative name. According to the inspector general’s report, the IRS flagged 72 “tea party” groups, 11 “9/12″ groups and 13 “patriots” groups for additional review. The IRS flagged an additional 202 groups, which the report classified as “other.” The ideology of these 202 groups is unclear.

The article makes pretty clear that while there are some similarities in how the groups were looked at it's also clear the Tea Party got more attention than Progress Texas and conservative groups seem to get more than liberal.

 

[OKTexas]

What's the point, propaganda, the freaking IRS has already admitted wrong doing, are you calling them liars?

 

[tinydancer]

This is a joke thread correct?

Surely we can't have another liberal attempting to say that the IRS is pure as the driven snow because they might have denied exemption status to a couple of progressive organizations.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

A liberal group on Wednesday said it had faced the same level of scrutiny from the IRS that was applied to tea party groups.

“Progress Texas and the Tea Party strongly disagree on the role of government,” the group’s executive director, Ed Espinoza, said in a statement. “Yet, when we applied for tax-exempt status, Progress Texas received the same type of additional scrutiny that Tea Party groups are complaining about. The similar treatment indicates the IRS was likely addressing a flood of 501c4 applications after Citizens United, and undermines the paranoid notion that Tea Party groups were singled out.”

Yes it does.

 

[blackhawk]

This is a joke thread correct?

Surely we can't have another liberal attempting to say that the IRS is pure as the driven snow because they might have denied exemption status to a couple of progressive organizations.

Actually Progress Texas was not denied tax exempt status.

 

[S.J.]

The scrutiny was to make sure they weren't a conservative organization posing as "progressive". Once they determined they weren't, they granted their request.

 

[tinydancer]

A liberal group on Wednesday said it had faced the same level of scrutiny from the IRS that was applied to tea party groups.

“Progress Texas and the Tea Party strongly disagree on the role of government,” the group’s executive director, Ed Espinoza, said in a statement. “Yet, when we applied for tax-exempt status, Progress Texas received the same type of additional scrutiny that Tea Party groups are complaining about. The similar treatment indicates the IRS was likely addressing a flood of 501c4 applications after Citizens United, and undermines the paranoid notion that Tea Party groups were singled out.”

Yes it does.

Lerner lied. Fact Checker caught her out.

Lerner made this comment while issuing a seemingly impromptu apology at an American Bar Association panel. (It was later learned that this was a planted question — more on that below.) In her telling, the tax-exempt branch was simply overwhelmed by applications, and so unfortunate shortcuts were taken.

But this claim of “more than doubled” appears to be a red herring. The targeting of groups began in early 2010, after the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC was announced on Jan. 21.

The ruling led to increased interest in a tax-exempt status known as 501(c)(4). Most charities apply under 501(c)(3), but under 501(c)(4), nonprofit groups that engage in “social welfare” can also perform a limited amount of election activity.

At first glance, the inspector general’s report appears to show that the number of 501(c)(4) applications actually went down that year, from 1,751 in 2009 to 1,735.

But it turns out that these are federal fiscal-year figures, meaning “2010” is actually Oct. 1, 2009 to Sept. 30, 2010, so the “2010” year includes more than three months before the Supreme Court decision was announced.

Astonishingly, despite Lerner’s public claim, an IRS spokeswoman was not able to provide the actual calendar year numbers. By allocating one-quarter of the fiscal year numbers to the prior year, we can get a very rough sense of the increase on a calendar-year basis. (Figures are rounded to avoid false precision; 2012 is not possible to calculate.)

2009: 1745

2010: 1865

2011: 2540

In other words, while there was an increase in 2010, it was relatively small. The real jump did not come until 2011, long after the targeting of conservative groups had been implemented.

Also, it appears Lerner significantly understated the number of applications in 2010 (“1500”) in order to make her claim of “more than doubled.”

A bushel of Pinocchios for IRS?s Lois Lerner - The Washington Post

 

[OnePercenter]

This is a joke thread correct?

Surely we can't have another liberal attempting to say that the IRS is pure as the driven snow because they might have denied exemption status to a couple of progressive organizations.

Actually Progress Texas was not denied tax exempt status.

What about Emerge America?

 

[OnePercenter]

How about Clean Elections Texas?

 

[OnePercenter]

As of May 15th, none of the Republican groups have said their applications were rejected.

 

[OnePercenter]

Nothing on the 'fair and balanced' Fox News about any of the three liberal organizations that were targeted by the IRS. I wonder why?

 

[ScienceRocks]

Nothing on the 'fair and balanced' Fox News about any of the three liberal organizations that were targeted by the IRS. I wonder why?

Either way the IRS is wrong. Needs to be investigated.

Don't you agree?

 

[OnePercenter]

This is a joke thread correct?

Surely we can't have another liberal attempting to say that the IRS is pure as the driven snow because they might have denied exemption status to a couple of progressive organizations.

Joke? Deceit within the right-wing news media is NOT a joke.

 

[OnePercenter]

Nothing on the 'fair and balanced' Fox News about any of the three liberal organizations that were targeted by the IRS. I wonder why?

Either way the IRS is wrong. Needs to be investigated.

Don't you agree?

Investigating organizations whose spending is 35:1 of the opposing side shouldn't be investigated?